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Since the new book encourages DMs to build their own custom domains, I thought...why not a thread dedicated to those? I'll start with the custom domain I'm working on, something inspired by Dark Souls. Danueth Deathless Domain of Twilight and Stagnation Darklord: First Lord...

Just reading through the new Ravenloft book, I had this idea: The setting of Dark Souls would actually make a great domain. There is already a white fog obscuring parts of the world, everything is a testament to faded glory and Lord Gwyn/The Soul of Cinder being the Darklord. His descent into...

Recently, I am working on a setting idea that would pull together many of my favourite ideas - science-fantasy, cosmic horror, pulp action, post-apokalyptic, Japanese and Norse folklore, ancient history and the Old West. The basic premise is that, sometime during the Third Crusade, a spaceship...

Hey! My current campaign is roughly based on Darkest Dungeon with the characters trying to bring back order to a lawless stretch of land devastated by the cosmic horrors the lord unleashed. In addition, there are also brigands terrorizing the few inhabitants of the land. The characters have just...

My gaming group wants to eventually try out a sci-fi setting and I am looking for a decent system. Maybe you can help me out here...I am a fairly experienced GM (having about 15 years of GMing on a weekly basis under my belt), but at the same time I am no longer as easger to get into highly...

Just like to put this out here and want to hear if you had any further ideas... I am starting a campaign using the GeneFunk 2090 setting for D&D5 today (it's cyber/bio/punk using the 5e ruleset without fantasy elements) and wanted to slowly inject a bit of cosmic horror into it, not in the sense...

Exactly what it says on the tin. I need a system to run a modern fantasy game in (as in, our modern world with guns etc. but as a fantasy world that continued to technologically advance, which means there's magic and demihuman races etc.) that should fit those criteria: Not too rules-heavy Not...

I am not that good at creating new critters stat-wise, but I need two sf-horror beasties from certain movies/games adapted for N.E.W. as well as an entirely new one. 1. Necromorphs from Dead Space series - basically a contagion that turns inanimate tissue into monsters (not zombies but...

They had this monster and several others in a mind-flayer-themed article in the old Dragon magazine. Any suggestions how to update that monster to 5e?

Short and to the point: I need an undead warband that is associated with Orcus, led by an ancient necromancer reawakened from his tomb with access to fiendish magic, challenging enough to make for a series of challenging and really interesting fight for a group of 5 level 10 characters. I have...

My current D&D5 campaign is set in a somewhat forlorn wilderness that has been heavily marked by the touch of Elder beings from other dimensions or from beyond the stars, among them the King in Yellow and his cult etc. I only recently saw a video explaining the 4e Dawn War and I, as someone who...

This is just a basic idea which I am putting forward, mostly to know if it has some traction or is interesting enough to develop further. Basic idea: In the setting, souls are reincarnated constantly and sometimes, souls can grow more powerful over multiple lifetimes. This is the explanation...

The RPGaDAY post has made me realize how much I'd love to give a setting with the fantasy races, magic plus the technological development of our times a try. Not Shadowrun, not Postapocalypse but a version of Earth in which the fantasy races we know have developed alongside humanity, maybe as...

Recently started a PF campaign set in Osirion that will feature a " be careful what you wish for" theme with a nod to Berserk. The Big Bad (must be someone/something with great magical powers) is discreetly handing out Behelit-like items that twist and change people into monsters according to...

The basic premise for my new campaign is that the characters all start out as normal inhabitants of some little backwater in some kingdom, having never really seen much of the outside world. It's a standard fantasy realm...until one day, the sun flares up, then goes dim...and a scream...

I recently got the idea of a specific kind of dark fantasy/survival horror style campaign stuck in my head and it will not leave me alone until i have done SOMETHING with it... The basic premise is that the characters all start out as normal inhabitants of some little backwater in some kingdom...

A world I am currently working on has as a premise that demons, devils etc. are not "true" Outsiders but beings formed from the evil of all sentient races. They have no existence as separate entities before coming into the world via summoning. Likewise, the "God"-equivalent in that world is...